Thrillers and horror lean on coin flips, roulette cylinders, and rigged games...

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Thrillers and horror lean on coin flips, roulette cylinders, and rigged games to ratchet up dread by putting fate on a knife’s edge. In No Country for Old Men, the coin toss decides life or death, making chance feel brutally personal