Thrillers and horror tap into coin flips, rigged games, and fatal contracts to...

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Thrillers and horror tap into coin flips, rigged games, and fatal contracts to crank up dread by forcing characters to gamble with fate. In No Country for Old Men, Anton Chigurh’s coin toss decides life or death with chilling randomness