He then switched to film, with House of America (1997) about a young immigrant coming from Wales to the United States, who falls foul of the American dream.

In 1998 controversy started over his Resurrection Man, an extreme horror period drama set amid sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

[3] The later films of Marc Evans show a shift from an exploration of the relationships between national identity and myth, to an innovative reworking of the horror genre in the critically acclaimed My Little Eye, which tapped into the Zeitgeist via its embedded critique of the extremities of reality television and the internet.

In 2004 he directed Trauma starring Colin Firth, Mena Suvari and Brenda Fricker; script written by Richard Smith,[3] which reprised the darker elements of My Little Eye via a chilling psychological study of amnesia and despair.

Evans, in an interview at Cineworld Cinema in Cardiff, declared that he is working on a musical set in Swansea of the year 1976, with Catherine Zeta-Jones attached, which then changed to become Minnie Driver.

[4] Also in 2012, Marc Evans directed the ITV produced Doors Open, a television adaptation of a book by the crime novelist Ian Rankin.