Watch This Medusa: Cursed Beauty Fan Made Concept Trailer (2026) Angelina Jolie has delivered one of her best performances ever as Medusa in a re-imagined version of the classic tale that finally puts the Gorgon on center stage and treats her as more than just a monster to be killed off by heroes. Jolie brings ethereal beauty and barely contained anger as a priestess devoted to Athena but who receives punishment for being violated by Poseidon in the goddess’s very own temple – and, instead of protection, she receives a curse to transform into a creature whose stare turns all living things to stone. Jason Momoa stars as Poseidon, and he brings a chilling presence to the god who sets the tragic events of the story in motion – but he receives absolutely no consequence for what he did to Medusa – and instead she is condemned to suffer forever because of it. What separates this adaptation from others is its treatment of the myth as a horror story about victim-blaming and divine injustice – and how Medusa became the monster that she was due to gods refusing accountability and a society that punishes the survivor and protects the powerful perpetrator.