“Gunslingers” is an early 20th century Western set in Kentucky — nobody’s idea of the West — starring B-and-C movie icons Stephen Dorff, Heather Graham, Costas Mandylor and Nicolas Cage.

And if that doesn’t lower your expectations for it, it should.

It was written and directed by the “prolific” C-and-D movie filmmaker Brian Skiba, who has but two online “Master Classes” he could teach for aspiring filmmakers. How’d he convince this cast, including Tzi Ma (“The Farewell” and TV’s “Kung Fu”), to show up with a “This time I’ll be BETTER, I PROMISE” and how he convinces anybody to finance his cascading career of cluster-you-know-what embarrassments.

This is basically Dorff, who always takes things seriously, surrounded by a few big names rolling their eyes and having a laugh with a lot of no-names and/or amateurs who never let us forget they’re just playing dress-up for the camera.

It’s about a robbery gone wrong that gets a young Rockefeller killed in the Northeast, with the man who killed him (Dorff) fleeing South by Southwest to rural Kentucky and the town of Redemption.

Skiba loves that word. He even titled a film “Guns of Redemption.” Here, the town is filled with “wanted” men and women, with a whole infrastructure built to protect them, from fake hangings, fake graves and funerals presided over by “preacher” Jericho (Mandylor) photographed by Halloween costumed photographer/madman Ben (Cage).

Cage dons designer sunglasses and affects a hoarse whinny of a voice for this role, which has neither foot planted in reality.

Graham plays a wounded mother fleeing a murderous husband, come to warn Thomas (Dorff) that a “100 man” masked posse led by his grudge-carrying brother (Jeremy Kent Jackson) is coming for him.

One-eyed brother Robert sees Redemption for what it is, “a buncha wanted criminals playin’ possum.”

The plot is a couple of shootouts leading to a long if never remotely epic standoff/shootout in and around the Domus de Sallust saloon.

As the mayhem, six shooters and bad-acting go off all around him, Dorff stands above it all, reminding us that this might have been taken seriously instead of all this vamped bad makeup, acting and screenwriting ineptitude and goofing around by players who figure they’re better than this.

But maybe Dorff’s the real fool here for not realizing what everybody else did.

Rating: R, lots of violence and profanity

Cast: Stephen Dorff, Heather Graham, Tzi Ma, Costas Mandylor, Scarlett Rose Stallone, Laurie Love, Jeremy Kent Jackson and Nicolas Cage

Credits: Scripted and directed by Brian Skiba. A Lionsgate release on Netflix.

Running time: 1:43