It’s not Halloween yet, but Stephen Nedoroscik brought the spooky vibes in week seven of “Dancing with the Stars” for “Halloween Night.”

After sitting in third place for the majority of the season, Nedoroscik and his partner Rylee Arnold dropped to sixth place with 48 points out of a possible 60 during last week’s “Disney Night.” They made it to the final three before surviving elimination and moving on to this week alongside six other couples.

This week, there were two parts to the episode. It started as normal with the partner dances and scores from the three judges before entering into a dance-off for the second half.

During the rehearsal previews, Nedoroscik said how upset he was after his performance last week and the drop in rankings.

“Little bummed out about how we put in an ungodly amount of hours of work last week,” Nedoroscik said. “I just mess up like one step, and then eight counts I’m off. It’s never easy going from third place one week to being at the very bottom the next. So, eights aren’t going to cut it anymore, but we’re gonna use it to fuel the fire.”

Arnold echoed his sentiments before asking him what his biggest fear is to determine what the dance will be based on.

“If I was in pitch black darkness, and I didn’t know where I was. Without my glasses, I have trouble seeing anything at all. I have no depth perception, and I also have a genetic disorder so any lights that are in my face, it’s super painful, and I usually can’t really see well at all,” Nedoroscik said.

Arnold asked him if the lack of glasses and depth perception might be affecting his vision and timing in the dances, which Nedoroscik agreed would make things easier, but it didn’t hold him back in the Olympics and wouldn’t hold him back in the competition.

The pro shared the importance of buying into the character in contemporary dances, telling the gymnast to show a different side no one has seen before and blow the judges away.

“For this dance, I’ll be playing a nightmare character that lurks in the dark. If I want to get good scores in this contemporary, I’m gonna need to be emotional, and I’m not used to doing that whatsoever,” Nedoroscik said. “As an elite athlete, being at the bottom of the leaderboard is terrifying. I don’t want to be in that position again, so I’m doing everything in my power to stay on the show.”

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The dance opened with Arnold lost in the dark and Nedoroscik behind her, reaching out to grab her as she dropped to the ground. He easily flipped into a handstand, walking around the stage after her, before dropping back down, creeping up behind her, and grabbing her by her shoulders.

Nedoroscik directed Arnold around the stage, dropping back and picking her up, spinning her around before dropping her back on the ground. Arnold fell on her back as he lifted himself over her, jumping over her and picking her up by her wrists as they spun together on the stage.

As Arnold attempted to run away again, Nedoroscik bent into another handstand, grabbing her foot as she pushed him back to the ground. The pair slid around the floor before he was on the hunt again, running to jump at her but hitting a rolling somersault. They both leaped around the stage before Arnold flipped him and twirled away.

They ran to the edge of the stage and Nedoroscik leaped over Arnold’s spinning body, landing in a pushup. The pair ended the dance as Arnold attempted to crawl away and escape before he dragged her back into the darkness.

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The praise started early as Carrie Ann Inaba jumped on the table, proclaiming it was the best dance that far through the night. Derek Hough complimented the makeup artists to begin, sharing how scary Nedoroscik looked, before saying how fantastic “Halloween Night” had been.

“First, once you get out of here, have a facial,” judge Bruno Tonioli joked. “Apart from that, your skills and your ability are undoubted, but what happened tonight, you found your dramatic persona. You were totally locked into character, you became somebody else, and you gave us something that was special and beautiful. Well done.”

The pair had some fun as they went up to host Julianne Hough, griddying off the stage together. Julianne Hough started by asking if Nedoroscik channeled his frustration from last week’s dance into this week’s contemporary.

“100%. I thought I was locked in before but this week, I knew like something changed and I locked in so much harder. I’m so proud of the performance I just did,” Nedoroscik said.

He also shared the strong partnership between him and Arnold as their positivity and outlook push each other every day.

The pair received a 10 from Inaba and nines from Derek Hough and Tonioli for a total score of 28 and their first 10 of the season.

Moving on to part two of the night, the hosts explained the rules of the dance-off. Two couples faced off head-to-head, dancing to the same song with the winner awarded three bonus points that can switch up the whole leaderboard.

Arnold and Nedoroscik faced off against bachelorette Jenn Tran and her partner Sasha Farber. The pair came out with Arnold carrying Nedoroscik on her back and he threw his fist in the air, his nightmare creature makeup still in full show.

In rehearsals, Nedoroscik shared his apprehension about facing Tran as they are comparable in skill, finishing neck and neck in the first round last episode.

“What I want to do to make us stand out from Jenn and Sasha is to incorporate a lot of cool tricks that’ll catch the eye,” Arnold shared.

“I’m an Olympic athlete, I have the stamina to do the salsa in circles around Jenn,” Nedoroscik joked.

The pairs hit the stage, split in half by different colored lights, to dance the salsa to “Jump In The Line” from the Halloween film “Beetlejuice.” The duo known as Arnold-Pommel brought the energy before the dance even started, jumping up to chest bump each other as their names were announced.

The pair walked out, clapping to the beat before joining together and spinning Arnold around. They strutted around, bringing energetic moves and spins before taking a moment to turn apart and reconnect hands a few times. The pair mirrored each other, snapping around the other, before giving Nedoroscik a second to open up his shirt to cheers and hit a backflip.

The gymnast picked up his partner above his shoulders, spinning her around before cha-cha’ing backward. Arnold-Pommel took turns spinning each other on the ground before jumping up to strike a pose and finish their dance-off.

All three judges said they were impressed by both dances and Nedoroscik’s energy, saying it would be a hard decision for the winner. After heading off the stage, the judges announced Tran and Farber as the winner, giving them three extra points for the night.

Tran jumped up to third place with 31 points while Arnold-Pommel fell to fifth with 28 for the night. Combining the judge’s scores with fan votes, the pair was in the final three again, shaking in fear. Tran and Farber went sent home this week, despite winning the dance-off to the shock of Nedoroscik and Arnold.

“Dancing with the Stars” will be away next week for Election Night, returning for its 500th episode on Tuesday, November 12, with a new dance-off challenge. Make sure to check back in two weeks to see if Nedoroscik and Arnold survive another elimination, folks.