Thrillers and horror lean on coin flips, rigged games, and deadly contracts to...

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Thrillers and horror lean on coin flips, rigged games, and deadly contracts to trap characters in tense uncertainty. Take No Country for Old Men, where a coin toss seals fate with brutal randomness