Dancing With The Stars' Halloween Episode Scares Up Another Elimination — Who Was Sent Home In Week 7?

With all due respect to Bobby Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers, theirs isn't the only graveyard smash in town.

Dancing With the Stars staged a monster mash of its own on Monday night, celebrating Halloween with a collection of scary — and often scary good — routines.

It was pro dancer Val Chmerkovskiy who may have gotten this week's biggest fright, though, when he tested positive for COVID and was forced to sit out the Halloween installment. Instead, Alan Bersten — who was eliminated just last week alongside partner Jessie James Decker — emerged from the Season 31 graveyard to perform an Argentine tango with Gabby Windey.

Elsewhere in the episode, the annual-ish team dance competition returned. In one corner, we had Team Wicked — Gabby, Shangela, Vinny, Heidi, Jordin and their respective partners — who performed to "The Witches Are Back" from Hocus Pocus 2, while Team Scream — Trevor, Charli, Wayne, Daniel and their respective partners — danced to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Heads Will Roll."

Forty more points were up for grabs from the judges after each team's performance, and those team scores were added to each contestant's cumulative point total for the evening. All told, Team Wicked earned 33 out of 40 points, while Team Scream dominated with 39 out of 40 points; with those bonuses factored in, Trevor Donovan and Charli D'Amelio ended the night tied at the top of the leaderboard.

As for which couple exited the competition on Monday night, keep scrolling for our complete recap of the Halloween episode's performances and results.

DANCE STYLE: Argentine Tango (to "Tanguera" by Fabio Hager Sexteto)

The show tried to worry us a bit during Charli's rehearsal package by playing up the injury flare-up Mark experienced this week. But Charli did not, in fact, have to dance with Pasha Pashkov on the big night; rather, she and Mark delivered a creepy-gorgeous Argentine tango, featuring Exorcist-esque backbends from Charli that were truly astonishing to behold.

JUDGES' SCORE: 39 out of 40

DANCE STYLE: Paso Doble (to "bury a friend" by Billie Eilish)

Daniel did, unfortunately, lose his timing a bit in the last third of this paso doble — but given the occasionally funky tempo of "bury a friend" and the periodic arrival of other troupe members on the dance floor, Daniel maintained his pace and composure quite nicely overall.

JUDGES' SCORE: 34 out of 40

DANCE STYLE: Jazz (to "Look What You Made Me Do" by Taylor Swift)

When we talk about capital-A Acting during a performance, we're talking about what Shangela — and Gleb, for that matter! — was doing throughout this routine. With an assist from some excellent evil doll makeup, Shangela relished every moment on the dance floor, fully embodying her chilling character while never sacrificing technique during the number's more acrobatic moments. That final sequence when Gleb lowered Shangela from his shoulders back down to the floor, and Shangela kept her legs straight the entire time? Halle-boo, indeed.

JUDGES' SCORE: 40 out of 40

DANCE STYLE: Paso Doble (to "Get Ghost" by Mark Ronson, Passion Pit and A$AP Ferg)

Despite what Koko told Vinny in rehearsal, this paso doble didn't have many sequences in hold, leaving Vinny to his own devices in a number of side-by-side sections. Fortunately, last week's dismal timing issues were nowhere to be found, though Vinny's performance was admittedly still quite stompy and inelegant. (Len didn't have to be so rude about it, though.)

JUDGES' SCORE: 30 out of 40

DANCE STYLE: Argentine Tango (to "Shivers" by District 78 featuring Mikayla Lynn)

With Val sidelined by COVID this week, Gabby had the unnerving task of swapping partners late in the competition — and amazingly, she had even more chemistry with Alan than she's had with Val. True, there was some unexpected timidity in Gabby's lower half when it came time to perform the Argentine tango's most complex legwork section. But! The elements I expected her to struggle with the most were the physical closeness and romantic passion between her and Alan, and she embraced both of those aspects beautifully.

JUDGES' SCORE: 38 out of 40

DANCE STYLE: Contemporary (to "Halloween Theme" by District 78)

Wayne Brady and a Halloween contemporary seemed like a perfect match, and a surefire way to get him and Witney back at the top of the leaderboard. Unfortunately, despite Witney's inventive concept, some super-cool music and a rare journey into hip-hop choreography for this show, the execution just didn't hit as hard as it should have.

JUDGES' SCORE: 37 out of 40

DANCE STYLE: Contemporary (to "Ghost (Acoustic)" by Justin Bieber)

Oh, how lovely this was. It'd be easy to chalk up this performance's success to Emma's gorgeous acrobatics — my goodness, when she bicycled her legs all the way to the top of that table! — but that would ignore the tremendous strength and stability Trevor had to provide to pull off those many lifts. And he was no slouch in those solo moments, either!

JUDGES' SCORE: 39 out of 40

DANCE STYLE: Tango (to "I Wanna Be Your Slave" by Måneskin)

Artem decided to get a little adventurous with his choreography this week, by way of a rope prop that connected him and Heidi in the beginning of their tango. All told, though, the rope needed to either completely stay or completely go; dropping it before they got to the meat of their routine made the rope feel needless and gimmicky, and the result, sadly, was on the "meh" side.

JUDGES' SCORE: 37 out of 40

DANCE STYLE: Tango (to "Oogie Boogie's Song" by Ed Ivory and Ken Page)

I wasn't quite sure what to make of Jordin's facial expression throughout this dance: Was it playfully terrified, or was it confused about the choreography? More often than not, it felt like the latter, and Carrie Ann succinctly summed up how Jordin's tiny, tiny missteps are still getting in the way of her tremendous potential. I'm bummed we won't get to see more from her.

JUDGES' SCORE: 36 out of 40