Editing Houma, Louisiana (section)

==In popular culture==
* Houma and the surrounding area are the setting for the ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' series of [[comic book]]s.
* [[V. C. Andrews]]' novel ''[[Ruby (Andrews novel)|Ruby]]'' (1994) is set in Houma.
* The [[Suicide Squad]] is based at Belle Reve in Houma.
* The 1999 films ''[[Crazy in Alabama]]'' and ''[[A Lesson Before Dying (film)|A Lesson Before Dying]]'' were filmed partially in Houma.
* The film ''[[The Skeleton Key]]'' (2005) is set in Houma and the nearby area of Bayou Gauche.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/locations|title=The Skeleton Key (2005) : Filming Locations|website=IMDb.com|access-date=2016-11-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306021659/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/locations|archive-date=2016-03-06|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Several scenes from the 2013 film ''[[The Butler]]'', starring [[Forest Whitaker]] and [[Oprah Winfrey]], were filmed in downtown Houma.<ref>[http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20130815/ARTICLES/130819707 "Some scenes from ''The Butler'' shot in Houma, Louisiana"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919192253/http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20130815/articles/130819707 |date=2013-09-19 }}, ''Daily Comet'', 15 August 2013; accessed August 21, 2014.</ref>
* In 1992, ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]'' profiled the case of Adam John "AJ" Breaux, a resident of Houma who went missing in 1991.
* The [[Hulu]] TV series ''[[The Act (TV series)|The Act]]'' included a scene in Houma of a young [[Gypsy Rose Blanchard]] and [[Dee Dee Blanchard]].
* The 2022 film ''[[Where the Crawdads Sing (film)|Where the Crawdads Sing]]'' was filmed in and around Houma.