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

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Thrillers and horror use coin flips, roulette wheels, and rigged games to ratchet up tension by gambling with fate itself. Think of Anton Chigurh’s coin toss in No Country for Old Men