How so?
We see Cronenberg actually use the violence in the movie to illustrate a point. It's not as, for lack of a better word, "fantastic" as in movies like The Fly or Videodrome.
It's real and it's brutal to highlight the brutality of it all. It's gruesome in an unsettling way. Which goes hand in hand with how Tom's own history of violence unsettles his family.
Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

i though history of violence was the least mature thing he's ever done,but to each their own.

Gotta disagree. While Cosmopolis and A Map to the Stars were certainly his weakest in a long time, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises were well crafted stories that showed a maturity in Cronenberg's abilities.
Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

it doesn't matter what he does now because he sucks now. the beginning of his(creative)downfall was marked by a sci fi film:existenz(aka"videodrome for idiots").

He's the auteur, not you. He can do whatever he damn well pleases.
I would be happy just to see him write a new original screenplay!
I got news for em. Theres gonna be hell to pay. Cause I aint Daddys little boy no more

He's the auteur, not you. He can do whatever he damn well pleases.
"Therb68e is no end, there is no beginning. Only the infinite passion of life. "

I think it's great that he doesn't want to be stuck as a genre director forever, but I think the problem is he stopped coming up with his own stories. eXistenZ is great not because it's SF or horror, but because he can really write some amazing stuff! writing a script based on a comic book or some other book is nice, but Cronenberg shines when he bares his soul.

@ OP.
I couldnt agree more OP!!! Ive been hoping that he would go back to make some more horror/sci-fi. I dont know why he made the movies that hes been making lately. Maybe cuz he become a little popular and people who had no idea who he was became aware of him with A History Of Violence. Those are the people who dont know much/or anything about movies. I absolutely think he should go back and do what he does best. On the other hand one cant blame the guy for wanting to try something different.

In fact, it´s his only film that´s virtually unrecognisible as Cronenberg´s work.
I thought it was eminently recognizable as a Cronenberg film - I just didn't like it at all! lol
David Cronenberg comments on A DANGEROUS METHOD
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AHOV & EP are excellent, but after having seen A Dangerous Method, I´m certainly on the verge of agreeing with the OP as it was such a bland, toothless, well mannered, even sort of superficial number. In fact, it´s his only film that´s virtually unrecognisible as Cronenberg´s work.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

This is SciFi, and there's plenty of violence, although I wouldn't call it horror.
http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/david-cronenberg-catching-fire-alfonso -cuaron/
David Cronenberg Catching Fire Possibility?
Unfortunately, neither Margarethe von Trotta nor Catherine Breillat is in the running as a replacement for Gary Ross, who officially left The Hunger Games' sequel Catching Fire a couple of days ago. The names currently being bandied about online (and purportedly by Lionsgate) belong to three North American males: Mexicans Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Canadian David Cronenberg (photo).
All three filmmakers would add "prestige" to Catching Fire, something that, if a Los Angeles Times report on the issue is to be believed, would please author Suzanne Collins, "who is much more interested in quality filmmaking than box-office prowess." Now, let's not be cynical. Aren't we all more interested in "quality filmmaking" than in "box-office prowess"? Really
If his speech at the Gotham Awards last year was genuine, Cronenberg might enjoy tackling something like Catching Fire. The director called himself "a complete fraud" after receiving a Career Tribute from a group honoring independent films, explaining that he has remained an "indie" filmmaker simply because "I've failed to sell out. I've tried endlessly, since the beginning, I've tried to sell out to Wall Street, to the studios, to the networks, to the bourgeoisie, to the mainstream, to the moneymen, and it has never worked out." Well, if this Catching Fire "list" isn't pure b.s., maybe now it's his chance.
Cronenberg's next release, which should benefit from the Catching Fire publicity, is Cosmopolis, featuring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, and others. The film opens in France in May, and has a good shot at getting screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I agree. TBH I really have not enjoyed the modern Cronenberg, his ultra realistic, grounded stories have just bored the beep out of me. They're well made and well acted, but I just wish he made something more engaging, Eastern Promises and The Dangerous Method were just so dry. I love the Fly, Videodrome, The Dead Zone and eXistenZ

Thank goodness. How many other directors keep surprising their audiences pleasantly, I mean. Not like Terrence Malik, for example.
What are you saying? That Malick
unpleasantly
surprises his audience?
You're pretty lousy at this empty snark thing.
I got news for em. Theres gonna be hell to pay. Cause I aint Daddys little boy no more

DC said recently that he hasn't dropped an interest in either horror or science fiction; it would all depend on an interesting project. I think as he gets older he is less and less interested in doing what he considers repeating himself, and more and more exploring where his mood and intellect take him.
Thank goodness. How many other directors keep surprising their audiences pleasantly, I mean. Not like Terrence Malik, for example.
I just watched a FILM4 interview with DC on his new film, and he makes the statement he has made before, that he is just interested in "exploring the human condition". It's our good luck that his explorations lead him in some interesting and often unsettling directions.

My post was in response to the OP's concern that Cronenberg had lost interest in scifi. Clearly, that is not the case.

Well, I'm glad to hear it, but I still say I will believe DC is doing it when I hear that it's shooting. Too many things can happen, as he has said himself.
Once (maybe even more often than that) the studio went bankrupt. That finished his project.
More often, he says he falls out of love with a project, and apparently has no trouble getting out of it if he does.
But it's nice to imagine what he might do with the property.

No, that's not all.
Media Rights Capital has already acquired rights to Lethem's novel as part of a package deal that, among other things, specifies David Cronenberg as director.
Nothing is certain in the film business, but it's the latest project to which Cronenber5b4g has made a firm commitment and it is most definitely science fiction.

DC said that he was interested in that story, but that's all.
I'll believe he's doing it when he talks about filming it.
It's a good story, BTW. I think it would appeal to his sense of humor.

I'm referring to As She Climbed Across the Table, his very latest project to be announced, and that is most definitely scifi.

It's COSMOPOLIS,by Don DeLilo, it's done shooting, and calling it science fiction is a big stretch. Read it and see. It's considered a major novel by a major American writer, but not science fiction. Not the same genre at all.
The film has a website but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment. Google listed it just now, though.

His latest IS scifi. I don't have IMDbPro so I can't tell you whether it's listed in pre-production or not, but it looks as if it's good to go.
http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/08/05/david-cronenberg-to-direct-jonath an-lethem-novel/

I wouldn't mind seeing him do something horror or sci-fi related again but I don't want to see him do it just to do it; I'd rather it be something his heart is in. Clearly it seems in the past several years horror/sci-fi is not where his interest has been. I'm with the others saying some of his non-horror/sci-fi movies are among his best, too.