DWTS Season 35 Horror Movie Night Week 7 Recap: Scores, Elimination

[This story contains spoilers for episode eight of Dancing With the Stars season 35.]

With Halloween just a few days away, Dancing With the Stars is celebrating the holiday in the ballroom with a night full of dances inspired by horror movies.

This week, the couples danced to songs from classic and new horror hits. Some of the films that inspired the DWTS couples this week include Sinners, Black Swan and Joker, among others.

Celebrities still competing on season 35 include Tatyana Ali, Tyler Cameron, Jenna Dewan, Ezra Frech, Amber Glenn, Maura Higgins, Jackson Olson, Harry Shum Jr., Julia Stiles and Connor Wood.

No couples were eliminated at the end of last week’s Dedication Night, meaning two couples will instead be eliminated at the end of Tuesday’s episode; the two eliminated couples will be determined by a combination of judges’ scores and viewer votes from both Dedication and Horror Movie Night. Plus, Shirley Ballas has joined the judges panel as a guest judge for this week.

Shirley wasted no time buckling down on her scoring, giving Julia and Ezra Sosa a four; she went on to also give Tatyana and Jan Ravnik the same score while her counterparts gave them each eights.

The second couple to perform, Harry and Jenna Johnson, made their mark by becoming the first pair to earn a perfect score on season 35. They earned the high marking for their contemporary dance to “Toxic” by 2WEI, inspired by Saw.

Horror Movie Night also saw Val Chmerkovskiy return to the ballroom after his one-week suspension following his allusion to Will Smith’s infamous Oscars slap while critiquing Carrie Ann Inaba’s judging of his wife, Jenna Johnson.

The couple with the lowest combined total of judges’ scores and viewer votes is eliminated at the end of each DWTS episode. Each viewer is allowed up to 10 votes per couple, per voting method (via ABC’s website and by text).

Live voting takes place during the East Coast airing of each show and ends shortly after the final performance; that means if you’re a West Coast viewer and want to vote, you must do so between 5 p.m. PT and roughly 6:45 p.m. PT, as voting ends after the final performance.

See the full list of scores for Horror Movie Night below.

Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa: 26/40
Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson: 40/40
Tatyana Ali and Jan Ravnik: 28/40
Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy: 37/40
Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach
Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas
Jackson Olson and Emma Slater
Amber Glenn and Pasha Pashkov
Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold
Tyler Cameron and Sharna Burgess

Season 35 of Dancing With the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m., simulcasting across ABC and Disney+ and streaming the next day on Hulu. Check out all of The Hollywood Reporter‘s DWTS coverage here.