(This story contains spoilers for episode eight of Dancing with the stars season 35.)
A few days before Halloween, Dancing with the stars celebrates the holidays in the ballroom with a night full of horror movie-inspired dancing.
This week the couples danced to classic and new horror hit songs. Some of the films that inspired the DWTS couples this week include Sinners, Black Swan And Jokeramong others.
At the end of the episode, Jackson Olson and Emma Slater were eliminated alongside Tyler Cameron and Sharna Burgess.
Celebrities still competing in season 35 include Tatyana Ali, Jenna Dewan, Ezra Frech, Amber Glenn, Maura Higgins, Harry Shum Jr., Julia Stiles and Connor Wood.
No couples were eliminated at the end of last week’s Dedication Night, meaning two couples were eliminated at the end of Tuesday’s episode; the two eliminated couples were determined by a combination of judges’ scores and votes from Dedication and Horror Movie Night viewers.
Additionally, Shirley Ballas joined the panel as a guest judge this week. She wasted no time in tackling her score, giving Julia and Ezra Sosa a four; she then gave Tatiana and Jan Ravnik the same rating, while her counterparts gave them each an eight.
The second couple to perform, Harry and Jenna Johnson, made their mark by becoming the first duo to achieve a perfect score on Season 35. They scored high for their contemporary dance to 2WEI’s “Toxic,” inspired by Saw.
Jenna and Val Chmerkovskiy as well as Connor and Rylee Arnold lagged behind Harry’s high score, both scoring a 37/40, leaving the Grey’s Anatomy actor as the sole leader in the scary episode.
Horror Movie Night also saw Val return to the ballroom following her week-long suspension following her reference to Will Smith’s famous Oscar slap while criticizing Carrie Ann Inaba’s judgment of his wife, Jenna Johnson.
In a teaser for next week’s Disney-themed episode, Alfonso Ribeiro also announced that Cynthia Erivo would be joining her as a guest judge.
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 entitled to up to 10 votes per couple, per voting method (via the ABC website and by SMS).
Live voting takes place during each show’s East Coast broadcast and ends shortly after the final performance; This means that if you are a West Coast viewer and want to vote, you must do so between 5:00 PM PT and approximately 6:45 PM PT, as voting ends after the final performance.
See the full list of Horror Movie Night scores and leaderboard position after combining the Horror Movie and Dedication Night totals below.
Horror movie night scores
Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa: 26/40
Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson: 40/40
Tatiana Ali and Jan Ravnik: 28/40
Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy: 37/40
Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold: 37/40
Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach: 35/40
Jackson Olson and Emma Slater: 35/40
Tyler Cameron and Sharna Burgess: 26/40
Amber Glenn and Pasha Pashkov: 36/40
Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas: 32/40
Combined total of horror film and book signing party
1. Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson: 76/80
2. Amber Glenn and Pasha Pashkov: 74/80
2. Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy: 74/80
4. Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach: 72/80
5. Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold: 69/80
6. Jackson Olson and Emma Slater: 67/80 (ELIMINATED)
6. Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas: 67/80
8. Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa: 62/80
9. Tatiana Ali and Jan Ravnik: 60/80
10. Tyler Cameron and Sharna Burgess: 58/80 (ELIMINATED)
Season 35 of Dancing with the stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m., simulcast on ABC and Disney+ and streaming the next day on Hulu. Discover everything The Hollywood ReporterIt is DWTS cover here.
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