But it was playing an unashamed antihero in sci-fi actioner "Pitch Black" — which turned 25 a little while ago* — that would make the world take notice of the actor better known as Vin Diesel.

"So, yea, it's happening," he continues, as the footage shows a row of hikers, their headlights glowing amid a pitch-black landscape, walking down the mountain with the Fuego volcano erupting nearby.

Cameraman Dawson Dunning filming at night. Photographer Helen Hobin an extraordinary insight into events taking place in the pitch-black landscape We had travelled out to the Estancia Laguna ...