The Ruling Class is not so much a film ahead of its time as it is a film out of time. With its potent and heady mix of seemingly disparate film genres (horror film, social satire, slapstick and the Hollywood musical) and its antecedents from the world of the theater (Jacobean, Elizabethan, and the avant-garde), opera (La Traviata) and the vaudeville stage, The Ruling Class demands to be noticed and taken account of. You may love it or hate it, but you’ll never forget the experience, just as all of the characters who encounter our "hero" Jack will never forget theirs.