Thrillers and horror lean on coin flips, roulette cylinders, contracts, and...

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Thrillers and horror lean on coin flips, roulette cylinders, contracts, and rigged games to ramp up dread by turning chance into a weapon. Think No Country for Old Men, where a coin toss decides life or death with brutal finality