Thrillers and horror use coin flips, roulette cylinders, and rigged games to...

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Thrillers and horror use coin flips, roulette cylinders, and rigged games to ratchet up dread by forcing characters into brutal, no-win choices. In No Country for Old Men, the coin toss isn’t luck—it's fate staring you down