“You’re an old king from some vanished country. You're harder to program. You're not rushing to become anything and you're not haunted by things that you did. You're haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would.”
The point of Monsters is not to tell you who the monsters are. Ryan Murphy is asking the audience the question; if the parents knew the abuse that was going on, how can they be so happy in the final scene? That is the point of the show. It is on the audience to decide.(parents)