Stephen King Movies Available for Netflix Instant Viewing with Your Roku

Stephen King is quite the prolific author and a stunning number of his books and stories have been translated onto the silver screen with an infamously huge degree of divergence in quality. Although most of the best Stephen King movies are not yet available for instant viewing on Netflix and streaming to your TV via the Roku device, what this means is that you can kind of catch up on some of those Stephen King based movies you might have missed. Noticed I said most of the best Stephen King; in fact, there are some bona fide movies based on Stephen King available for the Netflix Roku that are unqualified successes.

Stand By Me.
Standing astride the vast ocean of Stephen King adaptations like the Colossus of Rhodes is Stand By Me, based on his novella, The Body. Rob Reiner may be overrated as a director, but of his handful of movies that proves he coulda been a contender Stand By Me is right up there. This is nice slice of life about young boys growing into men who share one last adventure before time forces them apart and strips away the bonds that tied them together. At the time it didn't really seem like much of a Stephen King kind of story, but subsequent revisits by King to this landscape showed differently. If you haven't seen this movie in years, the Netflix instant viewing option gives you the perfect opportunity.

Misery.
To date, only one person has ever won an Oscar for a role in a Stephen King movie and that honor goes to Kathy Bates in Misery. To say that Kathy Bates seemed to be born for the role of Annie Wilkes is to restate the obvious; she inhabits the uncomfortable skin of this psychopath so fully that it makes you wonder what kind of future news about a bloody end to Ms. Bates' life CNN holds in store. And, of course, Misery is definitely worth a Netflix Roku date if only because of that infamous scene starring James Caan's ankle.